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Brad follows Veterinary Disease Specialists and Outbreak Epidemiologists into a hot zone in search for infectious diseases in the fox and prairie dog populations. The journey takes Brad nose-to-nose with the Black Death in Arizona.

Rocks are a basic building block of Earth and they are continually being created and destroyed. You can’t see it happen, but it’s been occurring for about 4.5 billion years. This cycle creates some pretty cool events for Geologists to study.

Northern AZ is home to over 600 volcanoes making up the San Francisco Volcanic Field. In this episode of STEM Journals, three volcanologists lead Brad on an exploration of Earth's impressive forces that shape our landscapes across land seldom visited or known to the public.

Researchers and students study Earth's and other planets' atmospheres to better understand the evolution and future of our climate. Geoff Notkin learns with students about the atmospheric sciences on earth with a weather balloon. As the balloon rises, it grows to nearly two school buses before it bursts and fall back to land. The students inspect the footage from the balloon and are able to learn more about atmospheric sciences.
Geoff then travels to Winslow, Arizona to the Meteor Crater with a team of atmospheric sciences researchers. Learning the weather in and around the crater helps the researches learn more about atmospheric sciences of the area throughout history, present and in the future.

Like humans, social insects such as bees, ants, wasps and termites, cooperate at amazing levels. Geoff Notkin visits ASU School of Life Sciences ant and bee labs where Researchers focus on social insects as model systems to better understand behavior, development and evolution of social systems as well as bio-inspired solutions to engineering problems. Then Geoff takes on helping a U of A entomologist locate termites in the desert.
One of the most social insects are your everyday bees. The Queen bees is the head of the colony. As they age, bees must determine whether wthey will become foragers or nurses. The aging process between the nurses and foragers is vastly different, and is important in learning about social insects and other living creatures.
Another member of the social insects group is the ant. Ants live in huge colonies and work together to do the job given ...

Host Geoff takes viewers on a journey to better understanding nanotechnology, and all things microscopic! The tiny world of Nanotechnology promises big developments in energy, medicine, materials and more! Nanotechnology research and design is the focus of the National Nanotechnology Initiative - over $1.7 billion dollars in Federal funding in 2014 have been dedicated to unlocking the keys to matter as small as one billionth of a meter.

What is the next “Big Idea” and who will develop it? Geoff meets bright, young innovators trying to solve puzzles that will advance science and technology as well as mentors from Arizona State University's SCENE program, who encourage their students to become professional scientists and shape their research to exhibit at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Outside the classroom, makerspaces and hackerspaces like TechShop are the playground for today’s makers, who will become tomorrow’s difference makers.

Geoff unearths fossils dating from 50 and 150 million years ago in the heart of Wyoming's dinosaur fossil country. International paleontologists work together to excavate a suspected fossilized Diplodocus dinosaur. Meanwhile a researcher at Arizona State University studies stromatolites, the most ancient record of life on Earth, as a potential analogue for prehistoric Martian life.